The Daily IIJ

Kenya has to clean its house if President Barack Obama is to associate himslef with the government of the day. The Lack of reforms in government, political tensions in the Coalition government and constant power struggles will keep President Obama away this time round.

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Regreting Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi detention, Friday (15/5) Indonesia Government asked the military regime to free Suu Kyi as soon as possible. Suu Kyi is detained in Insein prison, Yangoon, Thursday (14/5), couple days after Jon Yettaw, an American citizen tried to break into her house. The incident made Suu Kyi charged [...]

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Justice Minister Cllr. Philip A.Z. Banks has formally submitted his written response before the House Joint Investigatory Committee probing the use of the controversial US$508,200 seized from a Nigerian National, identified as Valentine Ayika at the Roberts International Airport in 2006.

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The Government of Liberia has finally released the much anticipated final results of the 2008 National Housing and Population Census conducted by the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo Information Services (LIGIS).

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Maputo – The head of the U.S. Command for Africa (AFRICOM) General William E. Ward is expected to arrive in Mozambique on Thursday this week for a two day visit as part of a tour that will also take him to Swaziland and Tanzania. The U.S embassy said the main purpose of General Ward’s visit [...]

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Maputo – African countries can reduce extreme poverty and increase human capital by adopting effective social safety nets such as conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes that have worked so well especially in Latin American countries, a World Bank expert said. Harold Alderman, an adviser in the Social Protection, Human Development Department, Africa Region at the [...]

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Journalists covering the National Legislature, under the banner of the Legislative Reporters Association, have announced a boycott of coverage of Senate President Pro Tempore Cletus Wortorson for “assaulting” one of their colleagues, Solomon Ware.

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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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What’s in a “meme?” A “meme” by any other name would still be what it is—a sometimes funny, other times annoying Internet-generated content (from uploaded digital files or hyperlinks) such as images, videos and surveys.

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National electoral commissioner Wednesday disclosed that US$33 million is required to conduct the presidential, parliamentary and local council elections all scheduled for 2012. Dr. Christina Thorpe made the revelation during a two-day national dialogue forum on the consolidation of peace and the promotion of nationhood organized by ENCISS in collaboration with the office of the [...]

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